Book Recommendations

[iknowwhatiknow]

There seems to be a few readers on this board, so I thought it appropriate that rather than hijack the 'your hobbies' thread, I try a 'what are you reading that's excellent?' thread.

I can highly recommend 'Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives' by David Eagleman. It's forty short possibilities for the afterlife presented in a nice mixture of art and science. My favourite tale is (on my tumblr - sorry for the skinny columns) this one http://imaginarydinosaur.tumblr.com/post/2441453588/when-you-die-you-feel-as-though-there-were-some

I also think that Suzanne Collins' 'The Hunger Games' series is phenomenal, though there have already been a few mentions of that series on these boards.

What do you recommend?

[zazanomore]

Man's Search for Meaning - Vicktor Frankl
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba
I Shall Not Hate - Izzeldin Abuelaish
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle (Any of her books really)
The Uglies Trilogy - Scott Westerfeld


All of these books are fantastic

[entrancedbymyGCC]

Another L'Engle fan! I sometimes think she raised me more than my parents did.

I do mostly popcorn reading these days. I love Rita Mae Brown's Sneaky Pie Brown and Hunt series, great animal characterizations (including some owls and other country birds), skillful writing and just a romp. I got Mark Twain's autobiography for the holidays but am hampered by the fact that it is such a thick volume it is very hard to read in bed, which is where I do most of my reading! I am so looking forward to it, though.

[zazanomore]

Another L'Engle fan! I sometimes think she raised me more than my parents did.

I first read A Wrinkle in Time when I was in the 3rd grade. I remember that it scared me, and made very little sense. But I re-read it when I was in the 6th grade, and I understood it way better. I then went on to read the rest of the books.

[Sunny]

If you have the stomach for it, try Chuck Palahniuk - the author of Fight Club and Rant (VERY good books). Some of his other stuff ... you'll go from disgusted, to amazed, to enlightened and back to disgusted again.

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold, disturbing and beautiful and poignant and far more superior to the film, which was $**t!!!!

Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle ... it is a little young read, but it is adorable and sweet and funny and the book that i always come back to when i'm down and want to be reminded of my childhood. and in my opinion, Howl would be my dream man lol.

if you like sci-fi try Lillith saintcrow - i loved her so much i named my cockatiel after one of her main characters - Tierce Japhrimel from the Dante Valentine series.

Hope that helps

[zazanomore]

I love Chuck Palahniuk

[Sunny]

you have immense good taste - in birds and books lol. which one have you read? i took haunted out of my local library ... my sister read it first and then told me about it ... i have issues with umm - umm - canna - cannabilism ... so i didn't read it. apart from that she said it was an awesome book lol

[zazanomore]

I've read Fight Club and Survivor. Great reads.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I first read A Wrinkle in Time when I was in the 3rd grade. I remember that it scared me, and made very little sense. But I re-read it when I was in the 6th grade, and I understood it way better. I then went on to read the rest of the books.

I read it at about the same age, and rather than being scared was comforted. I was absolutely mesmerized by the tesseract description. I'd run into the concept also in Heinlein...but not gotten it as well. I was, er, a bit precocious with my reading, I snuck books from my father's collection. I came across "The Arm of the Starfish" much later and that's when I really got hooked. I have read all of her juveniles, most of her adult novels, and a few of her essay books. I was actually suprised when I found out she was considered a Christian writer -- I always found her to blend science with wonder and, true, a strong sense of Good, but also realistic and very human -- even her nonhuman characters are very human.

[Sunny]

Survivor? oooohh I haven't read that one - no cannabilism?

i love this topic, i'm gonna have to look up a wrinkle in time now